Ex-B&M Boise Budd RDCs in Croton East Yd (Photos on 7/7/

Read my post the cars only hit third rail when they were severly overloaded during the blizzard, 60 people extra per car and several tons of snow on the roof. In daily operation these cars ran fine, despite being noisy and smelling like a outhouse.

It is no different, pnaw, than locomotives or other equipment with a universal design not being able to clear certain overheads or meet weight restrictions. We talk today about incompatabilities of equipment or other restricted uses. Here, as Dutch pointed out, is that the cars rode low with more than 60 people aboard. And only on the NYC lines at that. No big deal.

Each car had something like 180 people on board, about 60 over rated capacity. plus the tons of snow.
The Boisy Buds had some springs removed due to rough ride, after the engines and fuel tanks were removed, so the cars are no longer as designed by Budd Company.

And today we have reports of the Boise Budds being loaded onto flatcars... probably headed for scrap!

I was back up around Croton today saw two of the four RDCs loaded onto TTX flats, sans-trucks. Looks like a lot of the Croton East "Scrap" Yard has been cut out with only a few tracks remaining.







Joe